St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-02
WILL UlIs tFiHi iEllOI
The Attempt by a Lecherous
Brute to Ruin a Girl Of
Nineteen Years.
Attorney Smith Decides That
Wholesale Liquor De alers
Must Pay $1,000.
First Day of the Saengerbund
Brilliant Reception BY
the FrohSinns.
The Hush Bank Will Pay
About Seventy-Five Per
Cent. to Depositors.
A VILLAINS DEED.
Criminal Assault BY a Wretch
Upon q Young Lady.

The screams of a woman in distress
issued from a little narrow court at the
rear of a lodging place known as the
Central house, at 112 Third street house,
nearly at the rear of the GLOBE office at
Minneapolis, about O'clock Wednes-
day morning. \ few minutes later Il
man came down the front stairway of
the "hotel,' and was shortly afterwards
followed by another carrying lantern.
The two went to the rear of
the building, and, after hastily tearing
away pile of boxes and rubbish,
brought out the apparently lifeless form
of young woman, which they laid upon
the sidewalk. DR.. Kilvington was sum-
mOned from his Office near by, and after
Il curSory examination, ordered her car
ried to the European hotel on First ave
nue. south. Here she was taken in
room and her injuries were exam
ined Her right hip was found
to be diSlocated, her jaw seemed to be
fractured. and she complained of pain,
which indicated internal injuries. APP
pretending the case was a serious one,
requiring careful attention, the sufferer
was carefully carried down stairs and
driven rapidly away in a hack to 9l5
Seventeenth avenue south. These were
the particulars as far as could be
learned Wednesday concerning Il myS-
FERROUS affair which promised
SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
concerning which everybody living at
both of the hotels profesSed to be pro-
foundly ignorant. Yesterday morning
a short, thick-Set man with dark com
pleXiOn, who has been running a bureau
of Intelligence, was arrested by Chief
Inspector Hankinson and taken to the
central station. After this the police
officials seemed to breathe easier and
the particulars of the mystery were
forthcoming, and the story to be learned
from them is one calculated to
arouse the deepest Indignation
against a cowardly ndlecherouS villain
who attempted by force to ruin young
and innocent girl, alone and friendless
In a strange city, whom he had en-
trapped into position which paced
her at his mercy, and from which she
only escaped by what may prove to be
the sacrifice of her life. The victim,
Mary Sylvester, is a beautiful bru-
nette, petite and graceful in fig
ure, who is nineteen years of age.
She was born at Swan River, about
seven miles from Little Falls. Her
father was farmer, who was not well
off in this worlds goods. and when he
died seven years ago his wife and her
two daughters were compelled to seek
the aid of friends to keep the wolf from
the door. Two years later the mother
married again, and the daughters both
left home, Mary going to work as a do
meStic, ard her sister, who was year
They went to Brainerd, and remained
there until last November. Mary, who
WAS AMBITIOUS
both to gain an education and position,
began to look for something better than
the drudgery of the kitchen, and in
April came to Minneapolis, and shortly
afterwards went to work in the Grove
land house on Gideon's bay, Excelsior,
where her sister found her later. The
proprietor, Mr.. Gage, encouraged her in
her aspirations for advancement, and
when she told him last week she desired
to come to Minneapolis to get position
she couldEleaTn bookkeeping or type
writing. He advised her that it might
be for the best. She had noticed in the
papers the advertisement of an intelli-
gence bureau at 81 Hennepin avenue,
which promised to furnish all kinds of
positions to those desiring employment.
and when she came to Minneapolis,
Tuesday morning, she went directly
there. Her bright face and trim
figure evidently pleased the pro-
prietor, for when she told him
she wanted a place to work
at clerking or to learn bookkeeping, he
suggested that he was in need of some
one in his own Office. She accepted his
at once. She wrote her sister, whom he
promised to help to situation in
dreSSmaking establishment, to come to
Minneapolis Thursday on the p. m
train. During the afternoon Mr..
Murray, the proprietor, explained to
her what
HER WORK
Ia To
pecial effort to appear agreeable. When
supper time came he told her to go out
and get little lunch and come back.
When she returned he went to
supper, and when he got back,
after doing little work at his books,
he told her to come with him and that he
would show her where she was
to board. On the way he
stopped at newspaper office to
leave some advertising, and then said:
Lets go to the dime museum. It's
early yet" Mary at first objected but
finally consented. 1t was ten o'clock
when the performance was over, and
they started for the boarding house,
This proved to be the Central house at
112 Third street south, kept by Mrs
Sawyer. 1t is a so-called hotel, conducted
on the European plan, and occupies
three floors of the four-Story build
ing an designation house, where
rooms can be obtained by men and
women without any embarrassing queS-
tons being asked. AS they entered the
little office on the second floor, which
looks like sitting room, Mary noticed
that her companion wrote something on
book, and she caught glance of the
words
"AND WIFE,
This raised her suspicious, and they
were not allayed when going up the
stairs they met young man and
tlaShily dressed woman coming down.
When Il room was reached at the end of
the hall on the third floor the woman
threw the door open and said:
III bring you some towels"
When she did so a few minutes
later she closed the door and Mary found
herself alone with Murray. She was
little ashamed and would have been
more so if she had known the character
of the place she was i'll, but she tried to
conceal all her agitation, and, asking
Murray to give her a book belong
ing to her that he was carrying.
sat down to read with the hope that he
would leave. He did not, however, but,
on the contrary, threw his arms around
her. She struggled to free herself from
his embrace and asked him to leave her.
door and putting the key in his
pocket. Then he undresSed him
self. placing his pants under
pillow and lay down OH the bed. He
commanded her to undreSs and when
she refused he arose and threw her on
tie bed She cried and struggled and
pleaded with him to spare her. SIS
there anything can pay to induce you
to leave me as i amp" asked
the poor girl. Nothing" he an